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In Vitro Selection for Herbicide Tolerance in Maize

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Maize

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 25))

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In vitro selection has proven to be an efficient means of selecting for mutations conferring herbicide tolerance. Since the first demonstrations of tissue culture selection for resistance or tolerance to biochemical inhibitors and herbicides, numerous examples of success have been reported in a large number of plant species. These studies, concerning mainly dicotyledonous plants, have been reviewed comprehensively (Chaleff and Carlson 1975; Meredith and Carlson 1982; Maliga 1984; Jacobs et al. 1987; Mazur and Falco 1989). The genetic principles derived from these studies have been directly applicable to maize tissue culture selection. Direct selection in diploid maize callus cultures has been utilized to generate genetic variation in a number of traits. The first report of tissue culture selection in maize involved selection for resistance to the host-specific phytotoxin of the causal organism of southern maize leaf blight, Bipolaris maydis race T (Gengenbach and Green 1975; Gengenbach et al. 1977). Other examples of tissue culture selections in maize include selecting for increased antibiotic resistance (Shimamoto and Nelson 1981; Umbeck and Gengenbach 1983; Tuberosa and Phillips 1986) and altered amino acid composition (Hibberd et al 1980, 1986; Hibberd and Green 1982; Miao et al. 1988; Phillips et al. 1988; Diedrick et al. 1990). These studies provided the background of experience utilized in developing strategies for tissue culture selection of herbicide tolerance in maize.

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  3. Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and Plant Molecular Genetics Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55108, USA

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Somers, D.A., Anderson, P.C. (1994). In Vitro Selection for Herbicide Tolerance in Maize. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Maize. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57968-4_20

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